Verb: own up
- Admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
"the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting";
- make a clean breast of, fess up [informal], cop [N. Amer, informal], cop to [N. Amer, informal], own, come clean [informal], fess [informal]
Derived forms: owned up, owning up, owns up
Type of: concede, confess, profess
Encyclopedia: Own up, Take a Look at Yourself